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Where does our meat come from? Ever thought about it, really?

Have you ever been thinking where your food comes from? What happened to it before you bought it from the supermarket? How was it treated, if it is meat, how was the animal treated and what did it eat while it was living? If it is vegetables, is it full of pesticides and/or is it genetically improved? And does it matter to you?

For me it matters. I want to eat vegetables that are not genetically modified and that are free from pesticides. So I choose organic, and hope that by doing this I am voting as a customer for supermarkets to buy more organic, and so pushing for more organic farming. I want to know what I eat and where it comes from, because I want to eat healthy and think of the planet. Also it matters what the animals eat while they are growing up, because we will end up eating them. So if they are full of hormones, or antibiotics, we will get them in us. Did you know that you can get immune to antibiotics because of what you eat? Or that children die after eating hamburgers in the US because the food is dirty? It’s all so sick.

Everyone should watch Robert Kenner’s film called FOOD, Inc. We watched it yesterday evening, and it was really good. Shocking really, and while it is based on the US food market, I have little doubt that Europe is better. You can also take a look at a German documentary called Unser Täglich Brot , which shows you how the food we eat in europe is processed. I was really shocked to see the cows in it, they were SUPER muscular and looked unreal. They were so muscular, that they could not give birth to a baby cow normally, but needed to have caesarian?! How sick is that. And when they took the cows to the factory and killed them, I cried. You can find the link to it from here, it’s on the blog of “Uusi Musta” . And the chickens… they have so much muscles that they are only able to walk 2 steps and then fall down. They are kept in the dark all their lives.. and treated in the end so bad, it made me sad. 😦 There is much more in these films, have a look please and tell me what you think? Want to continue eating meat?